A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel

Haruki Murakami

Sept 2010 · Sold by Vintage

About this eBook

A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.
 
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.

Ratings and reviews

I read this after Dance Dance Dance, which is part of the same trilogy, and I never read the other book in the trilogy, but somehow that didn't matter. This was a great book with nice characters and interesting turns to the strange.

As you would expect of Murakami. He has a strongly whimsical nature. This one is a magical mystery quest. Better than Wind Up Bird and as good as Norwegian Wood.

The sense of adventure is palpable right from the beginning. A roller coaster ride filled with solved/unsolved mysteries!

About the author

Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, HARUKI MURAKAMI grew up in Kobe and now lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages.